Commentators who got Trump right
People who talk about politics, big or small, & from any faction, who've consistently warned that Trump & MAGA are an existential threat to liberal democracy.
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@polphilpod.bsky.social
@dollemore.com
U.S. Marine, host of Dollemore Daily on YouTube & I Doubt It Podcast - Voicemail Line - (714) 576-4054 https://linktr.ee/dollemore 📍Washington, DC
@brittanyepage.bsky.social
Eager lifelong learner. Therapy is political. Poverty is a policy choice. Page Perspective on YouTube/Co-host I Doubt It Podcast. https://linktr.ee/brittanyepage
@davidlsmith.bsky.social
Philosopher working on dehumanization, race, Freud, and other stuff. MY SUBSTACK: https://davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/ MY WEBPAGE: www.davidlivingstonesmith.com
@jim-stewartson.bsky.social
Independent investigator, writer, counterinsurgent. Radicalized Pod co-host. Please subscribe: mind-war.com
@heidicuda.bsky.social
Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, filmmaker, best-selling author https://www.bettedangerous.com Bette Dangerous Substack Byline Supplement RADICALIZED https://ko-fi.com/heidicuda https://ko-fi.com/heidicuda/shop
@davetroy.com
Publisher and Editor, America 2.0. Baltimore/Washington. Pilot, chef, coder. america2.news Signal: davetroy.69
@jennycohn.bsky.social
After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections, propaganda, and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
@proleftpodcast.bsky.social
Central Illinois Podcast hosted by @driftglass and @bluegal since 2010. proleftpod.com "The Nick & Nora of podcasting!" -- David Broder, deceased. Support the show at http://patreon.com/proleftpod or http://paypal.me/proleftpodcast
@bluegal.bsky.social
Exec Producer The Professional Left Podcast; Assoc Editor at CrooksandLiars.com. I’m a Goddamn Democrat. Host of Bluegal’s Knitting 🧶 Podcast on YouTube. Happy wife of @driftglass.bsky.social (Personal account) “It’s the corruption, stupid.”
@driftglass.bsky.social
The internet's grim conscience. OG blogger. Blue Blaze Irregular. Coiner of the phrase #DumpsterFire. Also podcast w/ Blue Gal -- @ProLeftPodcast -- https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/ I AM the motherf*cking shore patrol!
@jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com
Economics professor at Austin Community College. Associate Editor for Liberal Currents. briggeman.org
@lkatfield.bsky.social
Writer, political theorist in DC. My book about the MAGA New Right is forthcoming from Princeton UP. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico. www.lkfield.com American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Niskanen Center.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, democracy defender. Actor for a day on Succession, Jeopardy champ. Atlantic Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
@bernybelvedere.bsky.social
Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷
@lastweektonight.com
The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
@somemorenews.bsky.social
News show. News podcast. Hosted by codyjohnston.bsky.social and katystoll.bsky.social.
@garyseconomics.bsky.social
Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
@dennycarter.bsky.social
Bad Faith Times CEO/president/unelected dictator for life: https://bad-faith-times.ghost.io/ Millennials are the only good generation in human history.
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
What noisy cats are we. Author of THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024). He/him. Author site: armoxon.com Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
@jvl.bsky.social
Editor of The Bulwark https://www.thebulwark.com/ Host of a Secret Podcast. Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
@shikhadalmia.bsky.social
President, Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. Founder @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Editor, The UnPopulist www.theunpopulist.net. Classically liberal. Hate dogmas, esp my own. Rightwing populism is the threat of our time to liberal democracy.
@theunpopulist.net
Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world. https://www.theunpopulist.net
@tracinski.bsky.social
The Tracinski Letter and Symposium on Substack. Director of the Executive Watch for ISMA/The UnPopulist. Columnist at Discourse Magazine, senior fellow at The Atlas Society. Sic semper tyrannis, baby. https://www.tracinskiletter.com
@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@karenattiah.bsky.social
Global. Columnist at Washington Post. Artemis = feline guardian. Rogue Radical Professor at Resistance Summer School Join the Fall Waitlist for Race, Media and International Affairs 101! https://forms.gle/6LoPuLUUjPT6Tang8
@sifill.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
@devawo.bsky.social
Politics Prof., author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
@gothamgirlblue.com
Defiance posting. Vibes: Rancid 🟠 Not a Democrat anymore. Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Editor-at-Large at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America.
@jkuznicki.bsky.social
Rusticated wonk. Now a gay dad cultivating his garden in Puna, Hawaii. 🍍🌴🌱📖🌐☸️ Newsletter: https://pacification.beehiiv.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3319839950/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
@leninology.bsky.social
Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
@ryanlcooper.com
Managing editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
@nolahaynes.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Georgetown U Senior Foreign Policy Advisor & Media Analysts On Roland Martin every Thursday UCLA, Harvard Divinity, USC
@evanhurst.substack.com
Managing editor of http://wonkette.com, executive editor/proprietor of The Moral High Ground (SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://evanhurst.substack.com) Southern, dog person, lover of music and food. Bless your heart.
@revmagdalen.bsky.social
🌊 Anti-Fascist #Resist #SubGenius Creator of Israel-Hamas War feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmnjia7e5eh3jamsizupx5yc/feed/aaalrzaywm6ls And a US Politics feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmnjia7e5eh3jamsizupx5yc/feed/aaai4nqpmaptk
@patsobkowski.com
Political Science Professor at Marquette. APD, Constitutional Law + history, Administrative Law. Writing a book on the Steel Seizure case. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com https://patsobkowski.com/
@stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social
Dean of Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Obsessed with baseball, basketball, regulation, TV
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
@radleybalko.bsky.social
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Forthcoming book: The Defenders (Spring 2026) Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
@dandrezner.bsky.social
Political science professor, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@tribelaw.bsky.social
After teaching constitutional law at Harvard for 50 yrs, I decided it was time to teach in a classroom without walls — helping people understand the rapidly unfolding threat to our democracy’s survival and joining the struggle to preserve the rule of law
@joyannreid.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, documentary filmmaker and professional blerd 🤓💋. Fan of democracy and OG hater of fascism and apartheid.
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org Senior Fellow, Brookings Author, #DogShirtDaily Host, #DogShirtTV Purveyor of mischief. Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
@eliotacohen.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
Editor in chief, The Atlantic. Moderator, Washington Week with The Atlantic, on PBS.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@epicciuto.bsky.social
Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit.
@katemanne.bsky.social
Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
@kenwhite.bsky.social
Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Signal: KenWhite.1969
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@aselrod.bsky.social
President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist, Arc Digital. Contributing Editor, Liberal Currents. Teaching, Arkansas State-Beebe Other words: MSNBC, Foreign Policy, The Bulwark, Salon, UnPopulist He/Him Views mine www.pulaskiinstitution.org/donate
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
linguist, discourse/pragmatics bean & bug’s mom podcaster liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswer/ author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com singer with youtube.com/@arbielle?si=qzzG4mZwgbZWqhRY she/they substantively unserious
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@aaronrosspowell.com
Podcast host of ReImagining Liberty. UnPopulist contributor. Writing about political ethics. Buddhist and radical liberal. He/him. My podcast and blog: https://www.aaronrosspowell.com
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
Democracy and unions liker, former House staff. Vibes are real. Writing: aaronhuertas.com
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
Father of lots, earnest as shit, 14th amendment truther. He/him.
@design-law.bsky.social
Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech. Interested in IP, procedure & remedies. Currently writing about "Schedule A" litigation. Articles & CV: https://works.bepress.com/sarah_burstein/abou
@derekgottlieb.bsky.social
Professing | Indexing | Writing | Skiing I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at Northern Colorado, and I live in Wisconsin.
@davidfaris.bsky.social
Prof. of Politics at Roosevelt Univ., writer at @slate.bsky.social, @newsweek.com. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY and THE KIDS ARE ALL LEFT. Chicago-by-Philly. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right all along. https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
@angiemaxwell.bsky.social
*views are mine only* Blair Chair Southern Studies & Plsc Prof AMST PhD UTx; Truman Sch; The Long Southern Strategy; 2024 Carnegie Fellow; Data + Cultural Crit; Exhausted mom
@alasianuti.bsky.social
Political theorist. Historical injustice, gender and sexuality, resistance, political liberalism, and democratic erosion. Senior Lecturer at the UoY. Books: Injustice and the Reproduction of History, and Politicizing Political Liberalism (with G. Badano)
@ryanenos.bsky.social
Social Scientist, Harvard University https://www.ryandenos.com/ https://ryandenos.substack.com/
@opinionhaver.bsky.social
Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center. Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗
@smotus.bsky.social
"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg Subscribe to my newsletter "Tusk" about US parties, campaigns, and politics: http://smotus.substack.com
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@lioneltrolling.bsky.social
dottore, ingegnere, avvocato When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from @fsgbooks https://www.unpopularfront.news/
@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Sen-Anderson tradition. Writer/editor for Liberal Currents. "Wokest Ayn Rand fan you will ever meet." Star Wars and Wheel of Time fan. He/him.
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Liberal Currents liberalcurrents.com
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Editor at large, The Bulwark. Director, Defending Democracy Together. Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol. Never Trump.
@alixabeth.bsky.social
Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
@thebulwark.com
Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@gowder.io
Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter. Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
@kjephd.bsky.social
Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@liberalcurrents.com
A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. patreon.com/LiberalCurrents liberalcurrents.com
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of Political Science, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill. Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now. https://sirenscallbook.com/
@polphilpod.bsky.social
Host of the Political Philosophy Podcast & editor of What is Freedom with OUP. Politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics